3) Helping countries implement the laws against gender-based violence that they already have on the books

Those are three tall orders, but Vital Voices, which will oversee the day-to-day operations, already has a game plan in mind for tackling them.

With $1 million in seed money, the organization will focus its initial efforts on four countries – Nepal, Mexico, India and South Africa – where they think their work can have a profound impact. The countries all have solid laws against gender-based violence on the books but issues enforcing them. They have both women and men in power receptive to changing the way women are treated.

Josselyne Bejar knows well some of the challenges women, particularly those in leadership roles, face. She’s been a penal judge in Mexico since the mid-1990s and serves as the current secretary of the Mexican Association of Women Judges. But as she told Fusion at the State Department on Thursday ahead of the launch, her country has a misogyny problem.

“We need training,” she said, in how to combat rhetoric and policies that put women down, but said she’s confident that “we can do it with training.”

That training will come in many forms. Some of it will be in how to communicate, while other trainings will center around business skills and job-creation. The initiative will also take stock of which approaches work best, using input from lawmakers and advocacy groups around the world.

Cindy Dyer, former director of the Office of Violence Against Women at the U.S. Department of Justice and current vice president of Human Rights with Vital Voices, will oversee the implementation of the program, which is designed to last about a year and a half, but could become a long-term endeavor.

She said finding women to aid and train, both victims and those at risk of being impacted, is not the difficult part.